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Let There Be Rock
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Let There Be Rock: The Darkness, You Am I, DZ Deathrays, Cry Club, Horden Pavilion 10 February 2024 review on the 20th anniversary of Permission to Land album. Aussie punters get it, we have rock in our DNA, legacy of ACDC. Big Day Out 2004, Sydney Showgrounds. -
Secret Girl Stuff
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Flight Path Theatre is running Kaleidoscope Festival until the 24 February. The festival will provide audiences with a double bill each night, consisting of a short 35-minute teaser performance before the main show, Secre… -
C. Moore Hardy: Life in Black, White & Pink
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It’s hard to be sad there’s no Mardi Gras Fair Day this year when Mardi Gras past jumps off the walls in C. Moore Hardy: Life in Black, White & Pink. This exhibition, opened by Professor Nareen Young, highlights the intersectionality of queers… -
Elvis! Returns To Sydney
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Get out your blue suede shoes, Elvis is back in the building! Hip swinging its way around Australia, Elvis: A Musical Revolution has returned! David Venn Enterprises, the team behind Cruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musi… -
Tiny Beautiful Things
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Get ready for an emotional ride with Belvoir St Theatre’s new play Tiny Beautiful Things. It’s an incredible play exploring the hardships of life through agony aunt letters to Sugar (performed with heart and soul by Ma… -
Sydney Festival: Rizo, Prizmatism
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Cabaret requires intimacy. It’s hard to create in a room where the front half is set with lamp-lit bistro tables and chairs and the rear is a grandstand. This was the challenge set for Rizo (Amelia Rose Zirin-Brown) for her second Sydney Festiva… -
Sydney Festival: Overflow
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Providing a rare look into the life of a young transgender woman, Overflow was written by internationally acclaimed writer and one of the UK's most prominent trans voices, Travis Alabanza. Alabanza’s script is funny, fra… -
The Strong Charmion
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"Strength should be an attribute of all humanity. It's not a gift that belongs solely to the male of the species." - Jan Todd: First Woman to Deadlift 400 Pounds Life under the big top isn't easy, the tent goes up and the tent comes… -
Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World is clever, confounding and thrilling. The ultra-modern multi-media theatre piece is fast moving, vocally and visually. Blink and you’ll miss an important piece of information. … -
The Ideal Life
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If the National Art School (NAS) has piqued your interest about Chinese and Chinese-Australian artists, check out Vermilion Art next. This is a selling art gallery in Walsh Bay with a focus on Chinese art. Taking their cue from … -
Sydney Festival: An Evening Without Kate Bush
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An Evening Without Kate Bush is a cabaret show by UK singer-performer Sarah-Louise Young paying homage to musical icon Kate Bush. If you don’t know who Kate Bush is then this probably isn’t the show for you. But fish … -
Sydney Festival: In Our Time
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Jackie McMillan reviews In Our Time: Four decades of art from China and beyond, a free exhibition at the National Art School’s gallery. Part of Sydney Festival. -
Malevo
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Sydney Opera House Concert Hall felt ripe and ready for the Argentine men of Malevo last night. When the all-male troupe took to the stage, they were hooting and hollering before anything much had happened at all. Mind you, the da… -
Tiddas: Sydney Festival Blak Out
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Tiddas opens with the cast making their way to the stage carrying books, wine and a plate of sandwiches, chatting amongst themselves. It is a warm start setting the tone for a play about sisterhood. Set in Bris-Vegas, Tidd… -
Sydney Festival: Are we not drawn onward to new erA
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If you caught World Without Us (Sydney Festival 2018), you know Belgium’s Ontroerend Goed theatre company seek to challenge. Risk taking theatre can be uncomfortable. Director Alexander Devriendt is ever the provocateur. In Are … -
Tongpop's Great Expectations
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Telly Tuita’s obsession with costumes and masks makes his first Australian solo exhibition, Tongpop’s Great Expectations, fun and accessible. There’s a darkness underlying the colourful characters though, stemming from the artist’s life, d… -
Sydney Festival: Il Tabarro
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Summer. Sydney. Festival. Three of my favourite words combine to make January my favourite month of the year. No need for New Year resolutions. My annual challenge is to attend one event each day for the duration of the Sydney Festival… -
Sydney Festival: White Gold
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Despite the glitzy name, White Gold skips over spangles and takes circus back to its roots: a band of travelling troubadours who can fit their whole show on the back of an ox cart. Performed by Phare, The Cambodian Circus, … -
Sydney Festival: Smashed The Nightcap
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If you’re looking for a wild and a little bit naughty, late night adventure, Smashed: The Nightcap will certainly satisfy. The Sydney Festival show is a femme-fronted mixture of cabaret, circus and drag. Featuring a live… -
Sydney Festival 2024: Bananaland
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Confession: musicals aren’t really my thing. While others lean in when they hear the telltale inflection that a character is about to burst into song, I tend to sigh and wish the plot would move along. The boredom might be, in part, from the way…